Photonic Crystals Physics, Fabrication and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Inoue, Kuon (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ohtaka, Kazuo (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2004.
• Series: Springer Series in Optical Sciences, 94
• Subjects: Optical materials.; Electronic materials.; Lasers.; Photonics.; Materials science.; Condensed matter.; Engineering.; Optical and Electronic Materials.; Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices.; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Engineering, general.

"Photonic Crystals" details recent progress in the study of photonic crystals, ranging from fundamental aspects to up-to-date applications, in one unified treatment. It covers most of the worldwide frontier fields in photonic crystals, including up-to-date fabrication techniques, recent an...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Survey of Fundamental Features of Photonic Crystals
• Theory I: Basic Aspects of Photonic Bands
• Theory II: Advanced Topics of Photonic Crystals
• Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
• Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Slabs
• Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
• Other Types of Photonic Crystals
• Spectroscopic Methods for Characterization
• Interaction between Light and Matter in Photonic Crystals
• Photonic Crystal Devices
• Application to Ultrafast Optical Planar Integrated Circuit
• Photonic Crystals in the Terahertz Region
• Perspective
• Appendix A: Reciprocal Lattic Vector and Discrete Wavevector
• Appendix B: Phase Shift of Light and Density of State.